Box Score

RADFORD, Va. – Radford tied a school record with five home runs and recorded a season-high 17 hits as it outslugged Charleston Southern, 15-7, Sunday morning from a wet and cold RU Softball Field. The victory capped off a three-game Big South series sweep for the Highlanders.

The Highlanders (16-9, 5-1 Big South) and Buccaneers (16-18-1, 0-3) combined for nine home runs and 27 hits, 19 for extra bases, in the five-inning affair.

Radford totaled 13 extra base hits, which included seven doubles, a triple and the five long balls. Six of CSU's 10 hits were for extra bags (4 home runs, 2 doubles).

Six Highlanders tallied multiple-hit contests led by three-hit performances from Shannon Keefe and Michelle Beall. Keefe (pictured) was 3-for-4 with two doubles, a home run, three runs scored and a career-best four RBI. Beall was a perfect 3-for-3 with a double, run scored and RBI.

Hope Creasy also knocked in four runs with a pair of two-run taters, bringing her season total to nine. She is tied for the team lead with teammate Nichole Beall, who also homered in the contest.

Erin Kegley struck in the first inning for Charleston Southern, launching a two-run home run to leftfield, giving the Bucs an early 2-0 lead.

It didn't take long for Radford to respond as it exploded for nine runs in the bottom of the first. The Highlanders sent 13 batters to the plate with eight different players recording one hit. The inning was highlighted by two-run jacks courtesy of Creasy and Kristen Shifflett.

Keefe started a string of seven consecutive hits, lacing a game-tying two-run double to the gap in leftcenter.

Creasy followed with a home run to left, a shot that rang off the soccer goal's crossbar.

After two singles, Lauren Williams lined a triple to the fence in left center and Shifflett plated two more with her fifth home of the season. For Williams, it was her first collegiate triple and Radford's first of the season.

Three solo home runs, one in the third and two in a four-run fourth got Charleston Southern back into the ball game, cutting Radford's lead to 9-7 after the top of the fourth.

After Megan Lombard homered in the third, Kristin Kelleher and Trea Steele led off the fourth with back-to-back long balls. An RBI double from Megan Hall, followed by a run-scoring single from Shayla Cullum made it a two-run ball game.

Keefe got one of those runs back in the bottom half of the fourth as she muscled the ball off the scoreboard in left for her third round tripper of the season.

The Highlanders finished the game off with a five-run fifth with a pair of two-run bombs by Nichole Beall and Creasy that were sandwiched around a RBI double by Keefe, her second of the contest.

Nichole Beall and Shifflett each went 2-for-3 with a double, home run and two RBI. Shifflett crossed the dish three times with Beall tallying pair of runs.

Kegley and Steal each had two hits for the Buccaneers and Megan Lombard scored three times.

Radford steps out of conference on Wednesday, March 31 traveling to Longwood for a doubleheader with Longwood beginning at 3 p.m. Charleston Southern continues conference play on the road Wednesday with a twinbill at Coastal Carolina starting at 4 p.m.